The given article is Mr. Edward A. Silver's response to an invitation from the Editor-in-Chief of Manufacturing and Service Operations Management for submission of articles discussing broad based issues of OM research. The article is aimed towards stressing the need for replacing the traditional functional orientation of OM with a new cross-functional one of Process Management. He begins by discussing the traditional definition of Operations Management which sees OM from a traditional functional perspective. Next, the definitions of Process and Process management are discussed where the author supplies his own definitions of the terms. In the next segment of the article the author tries to highlight the importance of Cross functional or Interdisciplinary Perspective for OM by explaining how the transaction cost economics of earlier periods led to the focus being on functional areas. However he feels that the advent of IT has brought a radical change in the transaction costs thus enabling fresh organizational structures and cross departmental or cross functional processes. Today ...... Word Count: 1415 Page Count: 5.6 (250 words a page / double spaced) By 5ai9.com-->